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diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.xml b/help/C/usage-mail.xml index c90bffba79..21de0b77a1 100644 --- a/help/C/usage-mail.xml +++ b/help/C/usage-mail.xml @@ -511,6 +511,66 @@ load images off the net.</guilabel> <guilabel>Send</guilabel>. </para> + <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-charsets"> + <title>Unicode, ASCII, and Non-Latin Alphabets</title> + + <para> + If you want to write in a non-Latin alphabet while using a + Latin keyboard, try selecting a different an input method in + the message composer. Right-click on the message composition + area and select from the <guimenu>Input Methods</guimenu> + menu, then begin typing. The actual keys vary by language and + input style. For example, the Cyrillic input method uses + transliterated Latin keyboard combinations to get the Cyrillic + alphabet, combining letters where necessary. "Zh" and "ya" + produce the appropriate single Cyrillic letters, and the + single-quote ' produces a soft-sign character. + </para> + + <para> + For greater language display capabilities, check your + character settings. In both the mail composer and mail reader + settings dialogs, you can select from dozens of character + sets. If you aren't sure which one to choose, go ahead and + choose UTF-8, which offers the greatest range of character + displays for the greatest range of languages. + </para> + + <para> + To delve a little deeper into the issue, a character set is a + computer's version of an alphabet. One of the most popular + early character sets was called ASCII. It consisted of 128 + numbers, letters, and assorted symbols used by computers for + almost everything. It was convenient, and didn't take up much + space, but it didn't handle Cyrillic, Kanjii, or other + non-Latin alphabets. Programmers developed a + variety of mostly incompatible ways to work around their + language display problems, and today, many human languages + have their own specific character sets, and items written in + other character sets will display incorrectly. Eventually, + standards organizations developed the Unicode character sets + (UTF-7 and UTF-8) to provide a single compatible set of codes + for everyone. + </para> + + <para> + Most email messages state in advance which character set they + use, so Evolution usually knows what to display for a given + binary number. However, if you find that messages are + displayed as rows of incomprehensible characters, try + selecting a different character set in the mail settings + screen. If your recipients can't read your messages, try + selecting a different character set in the composer options + dialog. For some languages, such as Turkish or Korean, it may + work best for you to select the language-specific character + set. However, the best choice for most users is UTF-8, which + offers the widest range of characters for the widest range of + languages. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-delay"> <title>Sending Composed Messages Later</title> <para> |